Socompa Lake Stromatolite Shotgun Metagenomic Sequencing

doi:10.15468/oobb0s

Socompa Lake Stromatolite Shotgun Metagenomic Sequencing

Citation

MGnify (2019). Socompa Lake Stromatolite Shotgun Metagenomic Sequencing. Sampling event dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/oobb0s accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-11-03.

Description

With the altitude of 3570 m, this is so far the highest site where actively forming non-lithified stromatolites have been found, located at the shore of a volcanic, alkaline lake Socompa (Argentina). These microbial communities are a hotspot of biodiversity thriving under harsh environmental conditions that might be compared to Early Earth. This study uses a WGS strategy to understand the unique community composition and the mechanisms used by their members to withstand the extreme environment.

Sampling Description

Sampling

With the altitude of 3570 m, this is so far the highest site where actively forming non-lithified stromatolites have been found, located at the shore of a volcanic, alkaline lake Socompa (Argentina). These microbial communities are a hotspot of biodiversity thriving under harsh environmental conditions that might be compared to Early Earth. This study uses a WGS strategy to understand the unique community composition and the mechanisms used by their members to withstand the extreme environment.

Method steps

Pipeline used: https://www.ebi.ac.uk/metagenomics/pipelines/4.1

Taxonomic Coverages

Geographic Coverages

Bibliographic Citations

Kanik M, Munro-Ehrlich M, Fernandes-Martins MC, Payne D, Gianoulias K, Keller L, Kubacki A, Lindsay MR, Baxter BK, Vanden Berg MD, Colman DR, Boyd ES. 2020. Unexpected Abundance and Diversity of Phototrophs in Mats from Morphologically Variable Microbialites in Great Salt Lake, Utah. Appl Environ Microbiol vol. 86 - DOI:10.1128/aem.00165-20
Kurth D, Amadio A, Ordoñez OF, Albarracín VH, Gärtner W, Farías ME. 2017. Arsenic metabolism in high altitude modern stromatolites revealed by metagenomic analysis. Sci Rep vol. 7 - DOI:10.1038/s41598-017-00896-0

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